CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION More than 93 percent of car thefts occur in metropolitan areas where motor vehicle theft remains a pervasive problem. Western states‚ in particular‚ experience high rates of motor vehicle theft‚ while nationally a car or truck was stolen every 28.8 seconds. The FBI Uniform Crime Reports released an estimate 1.1 million motor vehicle thefts‚ with an estimated value of $7.4 billion. A new international Interpol Statistics revealed
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Cognitive Linguistics Dr. Beatrix Weber Professorship for English Linguistics SS 2012 The Spatial Schema and its Figurative Meaning Extensions A Conceptual Analysis presented by Oliver Sicker Date of Submission: Mat. Number: E-Mail: 01 November 2012 3203947 oliver.sicker@mailbox.tu-dresden.de Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................2 2. Spatial Relations and their Metaphorical Meaning
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1458 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING‚ VOL. 20‚ NO. 5‚ MAY 2011 IMAGE Resolution Enhancement by Using Discrete and Stationary Wavelet Decomposition Hasan Demirel and Gholamreza Anbarjafari Abstract—In this correspondence‚ the authors propose an image resolution enhancement technique based on interpolation of the high frequency subband images obtained by discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and the input image. The edges are enhanced by introducing an intermediate stage by using stationary
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In her essay‚ “We’re Only Confirming California’s Flaky Image”‚ Anita Creamer explains why the rest of the country views Californians as “flakes”. Her prime example of this is the 2003 gubernatorial election‚ where Californians elected body builder and reality TV star Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor. Californians put in office someone with absolutely no political experience in office not because of the merit of his policies‚ but because of the entertainment value he offered. “They blame attack
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but also celebrities‚ athletes and many women across the nation. Not only do we see emaciated models‚ but even mannequins are undersized‚ thus promoting a warped image of what the average woman looks like. The glorification and glamorization of this ultra-thin body pressures women to meet such standards even though achieving
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Images offer a powerful way to communicate. A single image can relate more to a person than text can. An artist can create a piece of artwork to express how he or she feels or how they see something. Over time the art that was created long ago can change meaning from what the artist originally intended and the perception can change as well‚ either through mystification or personal experiences. Author John Berger in his book Ways of Seeing writes about the various ways in which this can happen. By
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program in November‚ 2000. The Hyperion image of Dehradun was acquired on 4th April‚ 2010. There are 224 bands with the spectral range of 355 to 2577 nm at 10 nm band width.
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Not to be Reproduced (La reproduction interdite‚ 1937) René Magritte Paige Williams Media Aesthetics (Huma 1600) Dustin Brown October 22‚ 2012 Essay One Often in art galleries one can find masses of people carefully inspecting precious paintings and other works. Currently‚ the common practice for both novices and experts alike is to closely examine each piece of work for a deeper‚ disguised meaning that every artist has somehow instilled in his or her creations. Despite the popularity of
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community contributed photos and the heterogeneous meta-data (e.g.‚ tags‚ geo-location‚ and date taken) associated with these images[1]. Availability of cheap location sensor for geo-tagging of images on social media has made geo-tagged images very popular. The approaches which are existing usually mine geographical characteristics using a subset of multiple types of image contents or combining those contents linearly‚ which ignore correlations between different types of contents‚ and their geographical
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advertising image is a common case. I have chosen to implement a semiotic analysis of the men’s fragrance advertisement based on Roland Barthes’s theory of the image. On the layout of the advertisement by Tom Ford appears a part of woman’s body. Cutting half of the head off from the top and everything beneath the breast from the bottom it is only possible to see her open mouth with red lipstick and her hands with red nail polish squeezing the breasts together to hold between them the iconic image of a
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